Tag: General Home Theater News

HDTV Podcast #11 is up for your listening pleasure. THe main focus on today's podcast is HD Camcorders and some of the terminology consumers need to know. Its bad enough everyone's sec video makes it on the net, do we really need to see this stuff in high def now? They even have an interesting history on Sony's display and […]

 What the deuce? How does this happen in this day & age? Nobody knows what it exactly means, but this sounds shady as heck, and I don't mean shady in a good way like my name. "Patent 7075919, awarded to Cisco earlier this year, states that Cisco is the proud owner of any "System and method for providing integrated voice, […]

This article is a quick and dirty writeup on the market forces driving next generation content delivery to the digital home. From the article: In-Stat published a research report that examines the lifestyles and behavior of multi-person broadband households in North America, as they relate to next-generation IMS consumer applications. Broadband households in the U.S. and Canada are segmented into […]

I think we all know that CD prices have been a bit out of whack for sometime now. Wal-Mart certainly thinks so and they are letting the RIAA know that they want to sell the CD's for 10 dollars and still make a profit. I know I would buy a lot more CDs for that price. From the article: Tensions […]

As this week winds to a close, kick back, turn the lights off and poor yourself a cold beverage and listen to the HT Guys Podcast :). Topics discussed this week are a few news bit, and detailed covered of HD Audio. From the podcast summary: Listen here:  DTS does not claim, on their website at least, that DTS-HD Master […]

Engadget answers this with a resounding and confident maybe. As with everything in life, there are some technologies that are not needed by the masses. The real benefit to the 1.3 standard is support for the lossless HD audio format. Rather then having to use six analog cables, you can use one simple skinny HDMI cable. From the article: So […]

Syntax-Brillian Corporation Raises Revenue Guidance for Quarter Ended September 30, 2006 TEMPE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 12, 2006–Syntax-Brillian Corporation (Nasdaq: BRLC), one of the fastest-growing manufacturers of HDTVs in North America, announced today that it has raised its revenue guidance for its first fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2006. "In our quarterly conference call on August 22, 2006, we provided revenue guidance […]

Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today announces its renewed agreement for title sponsorship of the Pioneer PureVision™ Las Vegas Bowl.  The announcement by bowl executive director Tina Kunzer-Murphy and Pioneer senior vice president of marketing Russ Johnston is a key component of Pioneer’s new advertising campaign, which is heavily concentrated in sports programming.  RPA, the largest independent advertising agency based on […]

This week's term of the week at About.com is VCD. VCD utilizes a mpeg1 CODEC which allows 74 minutes per CD. Resolution was comparable to your VHS tapes we all know and love. This format became popular overseas as well as on P2P clients. :o. From the article: Employing a compression system known as MPEG1, 74 minutes of audio and […]

"The HC5000BL is an LCD home theater projector, as are several of the first generation of 1080p projectors, and although it represents the least expensive of them, it is also the first time in several years that an LCD projector for home theater will actually sell for over $3000, as they have primarily been lower end models."   Read the […]